Oxford City Council has caused a furore by renaming the city's Christmas celebrations the "Winter Light Festival" at the request of the council-funded charity that organises the festivities, Oxford Inspires.See Telegraph.co.uk for full story

A Save the Children aid worker has claimed that shelter, starvation and the separation of families are some of the main problems facing the people displaced in Goma, the war-torn city in the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. See BBC News for full story

The Welsh arm of Macmillan Cancer Support has called on the Government to help cancer sufferers with their fuel bills this winter.See BBC News for full story

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